Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-10-11
British Opinions ON Yachts.


rHR LONDON "FIELD" SUGGESTS VARIOUS wAYD ron
WINNING THE AMERICAS cur.
London Special to the New York Herald
The Field has q long editorial on the yacht race,
doubtless from Dixon Kemp. It contains these
points and comments:
In the face of the difflculties In the way Of In.
creasing Thistle's draught OF water It IL open to
doubt whether Q smaller yacht would not stand Q
better chance OF winning the cup even in Q stlfY
breeze, now that the Americans have assimilated
our ideas as 70 un ier-water depth, body and Iced
6allssting: the deed Of gift stiPulates that the
tons register and not more than three hundred.
The May, 40-tonner, is OF 35 tons register, and L.
eyes n9e 81 % es
on the water line, with a beam OF IL feet, and at
the time she was tdtlt and nrst raced I'm ISL, she
could have walked on with the America cup with
comparative ease, unless q compromise sloop, half
British, half American had been built TO meet her.
wRAT nIGHr HAVE BEEN.
Such q sloop as this would now, Of course, be
built, and might have been In 1851. SELL, we
think that a 64-foot May, under the new rating,
would stand better chance than q large vessel
Maggie and Clara have given good account OF
themselves when racing against centerboarders
lively they draw more water than larger vessels
and are thus better able TO hold ceuterboarder Of
equal length on wind. Al any rate, as thes(
annual event It Is worth considering whether ouI
chances OF success would not be increased By
adopting q cheaper method OF proceeding. TIKI
Americans have apparently, with perfect business
OF perception, adopted the principle that they will
meet the challenger size for size, or st any rate
length for length and II the challenge De ISSUED
pate being met BY one or No feet.
MUCH huRR ALIVE
The Americans are more alive than we are "a
the fact that contests between yachts OF such
widely different dimensions are unsatisfactory
and embarrassing. Worse than This, they prove
Nab OF ten tors, lead the Marjorie, OF seven Tunes
her Tonnage II 6outhsea, for hours In . light
wind, and when a heeling breeze came the Mar.
jorie walked away from her ten minutes In q reach
OF miles We therefore think that the New York
Yacht Club would not bring the America cup into
ridicule by organizing sort Of ''pug ana grey
CLAIMING rHR crxraRsoARp.
It appears likely that there viii be some clamor-
ing that any future British challenge should make
use OF our invention. the centerboard. The Amer.
leans have now had an almost exclusive monopoly
OF this British contrtvance for more than half Q
american Origin. with this sinisbls fo,bie We
will not quarrel, nor DO We think they can blame
US II we again take up with z long discarded
been ntted up with type metal IN In her lead
keel say IS feet long, TO drop 4 feet, abe would
nave held the volunteer on wind In the second
through tile water as the American vessel but she
could not hold the wind The Yankee did.
OTHER THINGS THAT nI0Hr HELP.
It has been suggested that the course should be
either four-sided or triangular, as anording Q
fairer test than dead to windward and dead to
leeward trial Possibly this may DO 20. providing
the yachts have to beat up one side Of the square
CT triangle; but a very small shit OF wind would
make it all reaching, and that at any rate, would
be unsatisfactory. dead 70 windward race can
be plotted out and marked sc the moment OF start
ing, but either triangular or square couise